Family games
Family games kids can pick up in a minute
7 free games, playable right now in your browser.
The test for this page is simple: can a child be playing within a minute of the page loading? Ludo and snakes and ladders need nothing but a roll and a count. Dominoes, carrom, mancala and Yatzy take a sentence to explain and then reveal more the longer you play them, which is what keeps an adult in the game too.
They run in any browser with no download, no sign-up and nothing to buy, and the boards are big enough to work on a tablet handed across a table. The computer plays the other side when it is one child on their own, and Yatzy has a two-player mode for sharing one screen.
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Carrom
Flick the striker off your baseline to pocket your nine coins and cover the queen before the computer clears its own.
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Dominoes
Match your tiles to the open ends of the train, empty your hand first, and be the first to a hundred points.
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Dots and Boxes
Join two dots with a line. Close the fourth side of a box to claim it and go again. Play the computer or pass the phone to a friend.
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Ludo
Race four tokens home around the cross before three computer rivals — roll sixes to break out, capture on contact, and finish on an exact count.
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Mancala
Sow seeds around a board of twelve pits, land your last seed in an empty pit to capture across from it, and fill your store to beat the computer.
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Snakes and Ladders
Roll one die and race two to four players up a ten by ten track: ladders carry you up, snakes drag you down, and only an exact roll finishes on 100.
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Yatzy
Roll five dice three times a turn, keep the ones you want, and fill fifteen scoring boxes before your opponent does.
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